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* The 1976 British parody, ''Film/QueenKong'', has a [[GenderFlip ]] gender flippedcast, including the eponymous female ape.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' episode "Rage of the Ape-Men", the eponymous ape-men hold a tournament where large KillerGorilla warriors fight each other to death. Their champion becomes an example of this trope [[spoiler:after earning the right to drink from a potion that increases his size, strength and bloodlust, and engaging in a battle with the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' Fang]].

* In ''Animation/BoBoiBoy Movie 2'', the heroes are tasked to pluck the hair off a giant space ape called King Kang Kong.

* ''VideoGame/{{Gigabash}}'': One of the playable Monsters in Gigabash is called Gorogong, despite being a Lava Monster with Horns of a Bull, and a Shell like a Turtle, his overall appearance is mainly a Gorilla like Kong, plus, has unlockable costumes called Jungle Warrior: Brown Fur like Toho and Monsterverse Kong, The Abominable: White Fur like a Yeti and George from Rampage 2018, and Gorokong: Black Fur like the Classic and Peter Jackson’s Kong.

* ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'': One of the principal monsters (to the point he's featured on the game's cover) that you can play as is a gigantic ape called Conga, who's special attack is [[MakeMeWannaShout his devastating roar]]. He even scales a skyscraper during his introduction animation in story mode. His origin is revealed that he was a [[ApesInSpace chimpanzee launched in a rocket]] that collided with a crashing flying saucer.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'': The film's BigBad is a {{Kaiju}}-sized ape ([[MixAndMatchCritters part mandrill, part gorilla, part echidna]]) named Spiny Mandrilla. The Betterman family hide behind a wooden wall from him, just like the Skull Island natives do from Kong. The local tribe of Punch-Monkeys appease him with sacrifices (primarily [[StockAnimalDiet bananas]]), but when Grug eats the bananas intended as sacrifice, the Punch-Monkeys kidnap him along with Phil and Guy and give them to the Mandrilla as HumanSacrifice. Finally, [[spoiler:the Mandrilla also suffers a DisneyVillainDeath, falling into a chasm to his doom]].

* ''Film/{{Rampage 2018}}'', adapted from [[VideoGame/{{Rampage}} the video game of the same name]], stars a giant gorilla named George along with two other {{Kaiju}}. In this version, George gets some AdaptationalHeroism, is a friendly zoo animal that is turned gigantic and aggressive by a serum, and has white fur to look distinct from King Kong.

* Inverted in ''Literature/MovingPictures'', where the climax involves a GiantWoman [[KingKongClimb climbing a tower]] while holding a screaming ape in her hand.

* ''VideoGame/{{Gigabash}}'': One of the playable Monsters in Gigabash is called Gorogong, despite being a Lava Monster with Horns of a Bull, and a Shell like a Turtle, his overall appearance is mainly a Gorilla like Kong, plus, has us lockable costumes called Jungle Warrior: Brown Fur like Toho and Monsterverse Kong, The Abominable: White Fur like a Yeti and George from Rampage 2018, and Gorokong: Black Fur like the Classic and Peter Jackson’s Kong.

* ''TabletopGame/KingOfTokyo'' has "The King", a giant simian creature.

* A giant ape named King Colosso appeared three times in ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}]''. All three tales are obviously inspired by elements in ''Film/KingKong1933''. King Colosso was an antagonist for two issues but a member of the Rangers for the last.

* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch enters Bananas, the zoo gorilla, in a wrestling contest offering a $500 prize. His ring name is King Klong.

* ''WesternAnimation/HenrysCat'': In the episode "The Lost World", Henry's Cat imagines himself as a Franchise/{{Tarzan}}-esque NatureHero defending the eponymous LostWorld's denizens, the largest and fiercest of which is a gigantic blue gorilla that the narrator calls "King Kongo" (though when the name appears on screen, it's spelled as "King Konga" instead). [[DastardlyWhiplash Rum Baa Baa]] plays a Carl Denham-esque role in the episode, trying to capture King Kongo to exhibit him in a theatre. In the climax of the episode, King Kongo [[KingKongClimb climbs a giant inflatable skyscaper]] while Rum Baa Baa fights him in a plane.

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* Obscure [=DC=] hero, Congo Bill had a magic ring that let him swap bodies with his giant golden ape, Congorilla.
* Space Ape is basically is a giant gorilla who joined the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' Corps.
* Klyde from ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}'' is a genetically engineered 15-foot-tall gorilla who regularly wrestles with dinosaurs.
* The defunct ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' had a comic called ''ComicBook/GorillaGorilla'', about a gorilla called Gorilla Gorilla who would turn giant and fight a NotZilla who he didn't realize was actually his roommate, Lizard Lizard.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' Issue # 17 had a giant robot gorilla called King Gong.
* Notably ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' Magazine's first movie parody comic was ''Ping Pong''. They later did ''Son of Mighty Joe Kong'' combining it with ''Film/SonOfKong'' and ''Film/MightyJoeYoung''. They then went on to do two ''King Korn'' strips parodying the 1976 and 2005 ''King Kong'' remakes when they came out.

* The infamously schlocky ''Film/TheMightyGorga'' features the tular giant ape living in an African valley.

* In the 1970s, a number of imitators attempted to capitalize on the success of ''Film/KingKong1976'', featuring a giant rampaging ape of some sort:
** The 1976 British parody, ''Queen Kong'', has a GenderFlipped cast, including the eponymous female ape.
** The 1976 South Korean film ''Film/{{Ape}}'' features a giant gorilla that is best remembered for FlippingTheBird at the helicopters trying to shoot it.
** The 1977 Hong Kong film[[note]]yes, it's a [[TongueTwister Hong Kong King Kong]] Copy[[/note]] ''Film/TheMightyPekingMan'' features a giant [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]] named Utam, who raised a FurBikini-clad blonde woman named Samantha.
** The 1977 Italian film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti:_Giant_of_the_20th_Century Yet: Giant of the 20th Century]]'' has a giant prehistoric apeman discovered in a block of ice in Canada.
* The 1961 British-American movie, ''Film/{{Konga}}'', involves a MadScientist who uses a growth serum that eventually turns an ordinary chimpanzee into a gargantuan gorilla-like monster that rampages through London in the climax. The film proudly wears its status as a knockoff right in the title, and the director even paid Creator/RKOPictures twenty-five thousand dollars for the right to use the name.

* King Louie from ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' evokes this with being a giant ape who rules over his own little kingdom of monkeys. He does Kong one better as he's a real type of extinct giant ape, ''Gigantopithecus'' but modeled after an orangutan.

* Inverted in ''Literature/MovingPictures'', where the climax involves a GiantWoman [[KingKongClimb climbing a tower]] while holding a screaming ape in her hand.

* ''TabletopGame/KingOfTokyo'' has "The King", a giant simian creature.

* Famous Nintendo character Franchise/DonkeyKong is said to be directly based off of King Kong, possessing the last name "Kong" (a word that applies to every other ape present in the franchise) and first name "Donkey" meant to be associated with "stubborn" to American audiences. This famously led Universal Studios to sue Nintendo for copyright violation [[DidntThinkThisThrough despite having established themselves in an earlier lawsuit that King Kong falls under public domain]]. In his [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong debut game]], DK kidnaps a woman and [[KingKongClimb carries her up to the top of a building]]. In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'', one of the Event Matches has a giant Bowser and a giant Donkey Kong face off on skyscrapers, a clear ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'' matchup.

* [[DirtyCommunists Kommie Kong]] (renamed Gorillazilla in the UpdatedRerelease) from ''VideoGame/HeavyWeapon'' is a giant gorilla [[{{Cyborg}} with cybernetic attachments]] that your tank has to fight as one of the bosses.

* ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' features '''two''' King Kong Copies, both of which are deities with the form of gigantic apes (though with a few [[ManiacMonkeys baboon elements]] as well): Blizzard, the GodOfGood and [[BigGood leader of the Virtuous Beasts]] who wields [[AnIcePerson cryokinetic powers]]; and Chaos, the God of Decay and [[ThePigPen most foul and disgusting]] of the Destructive Beasts, who fights with [[SuperSpit flying]] [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomit]], [[{{Fartillery}} noxious flatulence]] and [[AcidAttack acidic]] [[DungFu urine]].
* ''VideoGame/TecmoKnight'' has a giant gorilla kaiju as a RecurringBoss, who will pop out in-between random levels as a BackgroundBoss as you're atop buildings and structures, with the gorilla climbing up in the background and trying to smash you with its fists. You don't get to kill it despite fighting it multiple times, however -- you slash and stab his arms, both with it's own life meter, and once each arm is defeated the gorilla monster retreats only to come back later.
* One of the three original bosses in ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'' is this, referred to as the Megapithecus, specifically resembling the incarnation from ''Film/KingKong2005'' but with white fur.
* The first boss in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' was a ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' expy called Conga. A giant gorilla who threw oranges at the duo from the top of a tree.
* ''VideoGame/KaijuWars'': Megalodonkus (or Big Donk, as Major Danger [[InUniverseNickname nicknames it]]) is a tank-stomping, plane-swatting, city-smashing behemoth of a gorilla. As the nickname implies, it bears more than a passing resemblance to Donkey Kong, having the latter's famous cowlick.

* The [[UrExample very first example]] is the Creator/WalterLantz cartoon "King Klunk", released only ''six'' months after the original ''King Kong''. In this cartoon, Pooch the Pup and his girlfriend Coonhound go on an expedition to film the giant KillerGorilla King Klunk. From that point, the short follows all the most important beats of the original film: a HumanSacrifice by a tribe of HollywoodNatives, a BehemothBattle against a dinosaur, Klunk getting captured and taken to the USA, and a dogfight climax on top of a skyscraper -- all of them peppered with [[ZanyCartoon over-the-top cartoon gags]].
* The WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse cartoon "The Pet Shop", released about seven months after ''Kong'', features Beppo, the Movie Monk[[note]]spelled like this, rather than "movie monkey", on his cage[[/note]], a movie-loving gorilla who breaks out of his cage, kidnaps Minnie and [[KingKongClimb takes her to the top of a bird seed display]] in order to imitate his favorite screen idol.

* A few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' feature Thorg, a giant purple ape that acts as King Kong {{Expy}} counterpart to their mainstay {{Notzilla}} Reptar.

* An episode of Nelvana's ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'' animated series is about the elephant king and his friends getting shipwrecked on an IsleOfGiantHorrors explicitly called Skull Island, inhabited by a giant gorilla named Conga the Terrible.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatGrapeApe'' is a [[GentleGiant friendly]], [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife purple]] giant gorilla. People are terrified of him anyway.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Beauty and the Beetle" featured Thing Thong, a giant Neitherworld ape (so named because he wears thongs--the footwear like sandals) who takes Lydia captive because he thinks she's beautiful, and he's self-conscious about his own appearance. Lydia helps Thing Thong overcome his neurosis.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "The Ducky Horror Picture Show" featured a MonsterMash including a giant gorilla named Ping Pong who [[VisualPun carries a giant paddleball]]. The ape [[KingKongClimb climbs Scrooge's Money Bin]] with Mrs. Beakley in his hand.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker", the Stone of What Was is an artifact on a tropical island that [[FusionDance fuses]] regular creatures, turning the island into an IsleOfGiantHorrors. One of them is a [[MixAndMatchCritters combination]] of a [[KillerGorilla gorilla]] and a [[RhinoRampage rhinoceros]] (essentially, a more monstrous, King Kong-like version of [[WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles Rhinokey]]) that aggressively charges at Kit and the Ducks.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Film Flam" has an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe movie]] called "Son of Kongo" (a clear reference to ''Film/TheSonOfKong''), starring a giant gorilla, which is brought into the real world by the supervillain Tuskernini.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' episode "Rage of the Ape-Men", the eponymous ape-men hold a tournament where large KillerGorilla warriors fight each other to death. Their champion becomes an example of this trope [[spoiler:after earning the right to drink from a potion that increases his size, strength and bloodlust, and engaging in a battle with the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' Fang]].

Not to be confused with KingKoopaCopy. That's the one that kidnaps princesses and breathes fire.

* The Oozaru (the Great Ape in some English Dubs) from ''Franchise/DragonBall'' seem to be inspired by King Kong, but are different from other examples in many respect. They are Saiyans, a savage HumanAlien race that conquered planets, who can transform into giant primates (resembling a cross between a gorilla and a baboon) [[{{Lunacy}} under the light of a full moon]] in a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf-like manner]]. The transformation stops and they come back to normal when the moon hides or disappears (temporarily), or if the monkey tail of a Saiyan is cut (meant to be permanent, but there's been instances of the tail growing back under the light of a subsequent full moon). A Saiyan who doesn't know how to control the form (as was the case for Goku in the original ''Dragon Ball'' and Gohan in ''Dragon Ball Z'') is likely to do the stereotypical gorilla [[PrimalChestPound chest-pounding]](despite the Oozaru technically being a monkey) while firing [[KamehameHadouken energy blasts]] from their mouth at everything in the general vicinity.

* King Louie from ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' evokes this with being a giant ape who rules over his own little kingdom of monkeys. He does Kong one better as he's a real type of extinct giant ape, ''Gigantopithecus'' but modeled after an Orangutan.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS9E34SlakingKong Slaking Kong]]" features a gigantic Slaking (a pokémon resembling a cross between a sloth and a gorilla) living behind a massive wooden wall. [[spoiler:It is ultimately revealed to be a HumongousMecha built by Team Rocket.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/HenrysCat'': In the episode "The Lost World", Henry's Cat imagines himself as a Franchise/{{Tarzan}}-esque NatureHero defending the eponymous LostWorld's denizens, the largest and fiercest of which is a gigantic blue gorilla that the narrator calls "King Kongo" (though when the name appears on screen, it's spelled as "King Konga" instead). [[DastardlyWhiplash Rum Baa Baa]] plays a Carl Denham-esque role in the episode, trying to capture King Kongo to exhibit him in a theatre.

* ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' features '''two''' King Kong Copies, both of which are deities with the form of gigantic apes: Blizzard, the GodOfGood and [[BigGood leader of the Virtuous Beasts]] who wields [[AnIcePerson cryokinetic powers]]; and Chaos, the God of Decay and [[ThePigPen most foul and disgusting]] of the Destructive Beasts, who fights with [[SuperSpit flying]] [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomit]], [[{{Fartillery}} noxious flatulence]] and [[AcidAttack acidic]] [[DungFu urine]].

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* ''VideoGame/TecmoKnight'' has a giant gorilla kaiju as a RecurringBoss, who will pop out in-between random levels as a BackgroundBoss as you're atop buildings and structures, with the gorilla climbing up in the background and trying to smash you with its fists. You don't get to kill it despite fighting it multiple times, however - you slash and stab his arms, both with it's own life meter, and once each arm is defeated the gorilla monster retreats only to come back later.

* The [[UrExample very first example]] is the Creator/WalterLantz cartoon "King Klunk", released only ''six'' months after the original ''King Kong''. In this cartoon, Pooch the Pup and his girlfriend Coonhound go on an expedition to film the giant KillerGorilla King Klunk. From that point, the short follows all the most important beats of the original film: a HumanSacrifice by a tribe of HollywoodNatives, a BehemothBattle against a dinosaur, Klunk getting captured and taken to the USA, and a dogfight climax on top of a skyscraper - all of them peppered with [[ZanyCartoon over-the-top cartoon gags]].

* ''Film/SpaceMonsterWangmawi'', the oldest Korean monster movie released in 1967, have it's titular monster being a kaiju simian not unlike Kong, albeit one who's hostile and serving a group of aliens intending to conquer Earth. It even develops affection towards the movie's female lead and snatches her away in it's paws late into the movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The MonsterOfTheWeek in the episode "Gorizilla". Adrien's bodyguard The Gorilla[[note]]French slang for bodyguard[[/note]] is turned into a giant blue gorilla with super smell who is determined to find Adrien.

In most cases, a King Kong Copy takes the form of [[KillerGorilla an ape]], [[{{Kaiju}} a giant creature]], or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a giant ape]]. They often live on an IsleOfGiantHorrors, where they are [[GiantAnimalWorship worshipped or at least appeased]] by [[HollywoodNatives primitive peoples]]. As any visitors find out sooner rather than later, worship takes the form of [[HumanSacrifice offering]] [[BeastAndBeauty a nubile young woman]] to the King Kong Copy. A KingKongClimb towards the end of the story is inevitable, followed by a [[DisneyVillainDeath long drop to their death]] after being shot at by fighter-pilots. PrimalChestPound may also be used. A BehemothBattle with another giant monster (such as a {{Notzilla}} or a TRexpy) is optional.